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hauled in wheat and took home corn at $1.30 per hundred. 
Barley was selling at about the same figure as wheat. The 
acreage of wheat as given in the government reports for 
1900, was estimated at 318,899 acres; barley, 12,672 acres, 
oats, 99,768 acres; rye, 2,350 acres. The combined yield of 
these four grains for that year approximated 11,000,000 
bushels. 
It is a well known fact that under irrigation the small 
grains produce plumper, larger kernels giving greater 
weight per bushel, and that the chemical composition dif¬ 
fers widely from that of grains grown under rainfall condi¬ 
tions. Repeated feeding experiments in other states have 
shown wheat to be fully equal to corn for fattening hogs, 
and barley to be worth about 8 percent less than wheat or 
corn Prof. W. W. Cooke, formerly of this Station, made 
an extensive and exhaustive experiment comparing barley 
and corn, both whole and ground, for fattening hogs, with 
the following results: 
No. 
Tests. 
Av. Weight 
at 
Beginning. 
Average 
Daily 
Gain. 
Average Daily 
Feed. 
Food per lb. 
of Growth. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
Grain 
lbs. 
Skim 
Milk 
qts. 
Grain 
lbs. 
Skim 
Milk 
qts. 
Whole Corn... 
6 
71 
0.39 
2.0 
0.7 
7.0 
1.1 
Ground Corn . 
5 
60 
0.46 
2.4 
1.0 
5.4 
1.1 
Whole Bald Barley. 
1 
8 
88 
0.58 
2.3 
1.2 
5.0 
1.3 
Ground Bald Barley. 
5 
67 
0.74 
2.4 
0.8 
3.6 
0.8 
Whole Common Barley. . 
4 
68 
0.49 
2.3 
0.5 
5.4 
0.7 
Ground Common Barley. 
4 
47 
0.70 
2.4 
1.1 
4.3 
1.1 
Ground Com and Barley . 
4 
50 
0.77 
2.1 
1.0 
4.1 
0.8 
This experiment shows the superiority of irrigation 
grown barley over rainfall corn and thus over rainfall grown 
barley. 
The average price of corn in Colorado for the past ten 
years has been 80.5 cents per hundred pounds; wheat 99.5 
cents; barley 55.1 cents. An average for vvheat and barley 
of 77.3 cents, or 3.2 cents per hundred less than corn. If 
